Abigail walked back into the gardens; she had decided she’d missed something the last time she’d been in. She’d been in such a hurry to move on to the next place. As she walked round she noticed some trees –how had she missed them- next to what looked like a shed. After reaching the trees she retrieved one of their loose leaves from underneath them and placed it in her bag.

Blink.Blink.How did Torin manage to get confused by something totally unconfusing! Shaking her head she reached up and grabbed hold of his head.Shaking it a few times she smiled.I was right! There is nothing up their. Smirk.

...You petted me.You pet cats not people.I'm not a cat so don't pet me.

Oooh! OOOH! JAKE KNEW WHAT THOSE WERE!

He dashed over to the trees and grinned, taking a few leaves and petting the tree. "Good tree, thanks mate!" he added, turning around to see if there was anything else he needed... but he couldn't remember... did he have everything? Yeah... he was pretty sure he was sorted.

And so... Jake left. Simple as.

Sara was excited. This was the last tree leaf or needle that she needed! Picking a needle off of the ground, Sara pocketed it and proceeded back to the classroom...

Why was she shaking his head now? "Could you please not do that," he said as he placed his hands on hers and pulled her off of him. He didn't like people doing that kind of thing to him. "I never said she was in love with him. I said that it would be the same basic thing. And I'm not in love with Bunbury, for the record." He had a crush on her from last year. That wasn't love.

"I'm sorry then." He shrugged. "And it's about time I get going anyway." He had things to do now.

Ana always liked the students garden, beautiful garden. She was about to enter the garden but before she noticed pink trees. She collected some of the leaves and put it in her bag.

Ana continue searching around the garden and inside the garden when close to the tool shed she saw another tree from the list, almost certely pine. She grabbed the leaves and placed them in the bag.

Lyddia walked over to the trees that had been planted. She examined them, then decided to take one of the blossoms on the tree and walked away.
Aha! Lyddia walked over and grabbed a green thing, whatsit called, that thing, off the tree. Another win, another line across her list.

Shrugging she smiled...Oh.But you sai- So Brody being in love with Lawson was an example ? She was kind of lost but yeah it didn't matter now.Your not in love with Bunbury ? But...You right her letters and everything to her. She shrugged.

Its okay. she beamed.Oh okay then,see you around.

Yeah, he was really confused right now. And there was nothing that he could really do about it other than leave. Though he had a few things he wanted to say first. "It's a crush, not love." If she didn't get what he was saying now, she would when she was a bit older.

"I'll see you around." He smiled and got up, walking towards the castle. He had things that he had to do.

..Thats the same thing. she shouted as he began to walk away.Getting up herself she decided to take a walk around the grounds.

Cedric entered their student garden, its been quite a long time since he last visited his puffapods and flutterby bushes. And one reason that he went into their student garden is the hope that he'll sight Professor Bunbury at the garden. He missed their Herbology professor, of course. Then, he proceeded to his puffapod as he checked if it needs to be prune but not at all cause it still looks great. He glanced around then he noticed Shana and Torin together, he smiled at them then he looked around again in sight of Professor Bunbury.

What to dooo what to dooo...daaa...dooodaaaa... Miranda found herself walking somewhere she had not been before- Oh no, wait... She had been here before!
"Haaa, well would you look at that..." she mumbled, seeing the leetle plantses and things...growing from the ground. It was a mystery really, you dig a hole, put a seed in it and poof! In a month or two things grew. Or atleast Miranda thought it took that long. She shrugged.

Miranda saw a boy further down. Squinting, she saw it was a fellow Hufflepuff! Ssss...Ssseee...Cedric! Aha! What was he doing?

Walking closer, Miranda saw that he was infact inspecting a funny looking plant. Where had she seen that plant before? She began to think, her tounge between her teeth. Oooh...riiight... she broke into a big smile. That class had been fun. Tho the Professor seemed to've changed a bit...Maybe she had accidentaly snorted some magical plant's pollen. Urgh...

"Heya Cedric!" Miranda waved, "What you up to?"

Annie wrapped her arm around Ethan's of course and then left the greenhouse without another glance at the prefect and the plants.

"He's clearly here to just make more problems," she muttered under her breath, scootwalking closer to Zan because it was cold outside. And she didn't have gloves. "Funny that you can't find your chihuahua. I can't find my wand."

Sadface. If she'd had it she would have summoned a nice hat/gloves ensemble from her office.

"He mentioned, when we spoke, that he is here to teach us a lesson. Us, mind you, not the students." Zan eyed Annie and snuggled his arm about her shoulders.

"You can't?, Cedric mentioned several professors have lost their wands. You don't suppose someone has taken it? Do you have anti-theft charms on your wand and holsters?" Ethan slid his sleeve up and flicked a cherry wood wand out of his holster, then replaced it a moment later. Long enough, perhaps, for Annie to notice it was not his own poisonwood wand.

"Uh, us? What kind of lesson could we possibly need?"

.....on second thought, maybe it would be better if Ethan didn't answer that. Annie tucked in closer to him and kicked a little ball of snow off the path toward the pond.

"Well, no, I mean, it's always on my wrist." She glanced at him thoughtfully, noticing that that wasn't his usual wand. "It's possible someone took it, I suppose... lots of suspects out there who hate me..." she trailed off into a little sniff. "Where's Michelle?"

Ethan shrugged. He still had no idea how Borr's mind worked even after all this time. The moment you thought you had him figured out...

"So, you think someone took it straight from your wrist, perhaps while you were sleeping?" Ethan suggested, wondering about who would do that. "I do wonder just how many wands are missing. Perhaps it would be worth..." Alright so he himself wouldn't likely go to Bontecou about it since he'd probably just look like a suspect or something.

Stupid eternal probation.

"Michelle? Oh, she's in good hands. Copernicus Kettleburn. This cherry wood wand is his and it is becoming more of a hinderance than a help in his learning at the moment. He's fairly compatible with Michelle and so I have allowed him to use her for the remainder of his schooling... is there anyone in particular who you suspect?"

"I really really have no clue," Annie shrugged in exasperation. "Who else's wand is missing?" Was it really like an epidemic or something? Surely not.

She sighed anyway and rested her head slightly on Ethan's shoulder. There were benches out here to sit on. Snow-covered ones, but benches nonetheless. "You're a much better teacher than I am, Ethan. I can't say I would loan my wand out to any student. Ever." And she didn't even name her wands.

"Yes. I have suspects." Annie stopped walking for a moment and rubbed her arms as she thought. "Upstead. And Kolytiris. Crazy crazy children that... ah, might have motive?"

But Bunz really didn't want to talk about that right now. Or ever, in fact.

"No idea." Ethan wasn't the most social of people after all. "Axe had his when I last saw him, other than that my time is almost completely taken up by students."

Hm? A Better teacher?

"Nonsense, Annie. I'm sure I'd make Herbology ridiculously boring." Likely he'd make them all learn about herbal tea.

When Annie stopped, Ethan shrugged out of his jacket and offered it to her solemnly. He would still be warm enough for a while.

"Jake and Tino." Ethan responded in the tone of someone who knew something.

"Annie, what happened?"

Axe, bah, who cared about him. NOT ANNIE. Annie did not. Nope. Not a bit. "Yeah.... I didn't notice either," she mumbled and accepted his nice warm jacket without a thought. Mmmyay. Another jacket.

"No you wouldn't. And it wouldn't matter if it was boring, anyway, because at least you're not...nnnot... a....." She turned away and started brushing snow off the bench to distract herself. "You're not a fake."

Annie continued with the snow clearing, pushing it all into a little pile in the middle of the seat. She didn't want to talk about Jake and Tino, she didn't want to think about them, she didn't WANT ANYTHING to do with THEM. But it was obvious from Ethan's tone that he knew something. Something bad. Of course.

"What didn't happen, Ethan, I.... lost my temper... and that was quite possibly one of the worst days of my life." Annie sank down onto the frozen bench and rested her chin in her hand to stare pensively out into the snow.

"A fake? A fake what? You do have a teaching license, don't you? How could you be a fake?" Puzzlement etched itself on Ethan's face.

"I found myself in the hospital wing." He answered. "Aside from the fact that Celandine was there with a broken arm and young Evelyn had scabbed up hands, Jake was bleeding from the nose and quite delerious. He spoke of devils snare? Please tell me what happened Annie. I... am worried. I don't want anything to happen to you."

He watched her push at the snow and withdrew the cherry wand, giving it a flick to clear the rest of the bench off before moving over to sit down and gesturing for her to join him.

Annie remained silent for a few moments, not entirely sure how to answer Ethan. She didn't budge from her cold spot even though Ethan looked cozy on the bench. Why bother. He'd probably push her off into the snow after she told him about the Devil's Snare and all.

"I didn't see you in the hospital wing," she mentioned nonchalantly, kicking at some more fluff. "You weren't hurt too, were you? I tried to fix what I could. I... failed out of Healing school once for a reason though...." Annie peeked at Ethan from the corner of her eye before returning to her staring contest with the winter wonderland.

She sighed and her breath came out in a cold cloud as she continued mumbling. "I don't want you to hate me, Ethan. You're going to hate me. Would you hate me less if I just went ahead and resigned? I mean.... there's Wanted posters out......" on an unrelated troublemaking charge but it was all just more evidence of evil!Bunz anyway.

Watching Cedric take care of that plant was sort of soothing. Miranda was not good with Herbeology stuff, so aslong as she didn't have to do anything plant-y-ish, she was all gooooooooood.

This moment would actually be great for her Muggle Studies homwork!
Oh Miranda was full of metaphores today. This plant was like a student here at Hogwarts. Students are a seed that gets planted, into the SOIL OF KNOWLEDGE. Snort. And with the proper care, in this case the tutoring of the professors, the students grow into the best and beautiful flowers- students they can be.

Without further ado, Miranda raised her camera, moving the lens thingy to focus on Cedric and his awesome plant.
*CLiCK*

"Exellent!" Miranda grinned.

Hmmm... She looked around. She still needed one more picture for the assignment to be finished, but it was difficult getting it.

Oooh a COUPLE!
Yep, that would be great, ofcourse Miranda just had to take a picture of those two. LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE.

Scooting a bit closer, she hid behind a plant of some sort. Sneezing once, Miranda raised her camera and waited for the perfect photographic moment. The girl seemed to be wearing an oversized jacket. Huh, is that what fashion-y people wear these days?
Nevermind that, Miranda was ready to clicketh the button. And those two seemed like they were taken out of one of those romantic movies her mother watches. Bleeeeeh. Hehe.
*CliCk*

HOoorAAAAAyyyyyyy!
Now where was Kaika *sniff* and Dominic? *wipe snot*

"No." Ethan answered quietly, "I was not injured." He watched her for a long moment. "Sit with me, Annie?"

Resigned?

"Would you at least allow me the courtesy to decide whether or not I wish to... hate you?" Merlin, he didn't even quite hate Krazimeriz.

"If you resign, I will too." He added, quite seriously. "We'll go to Peru."

Annie looked up from her musings when she heard a familiar click, but not seeing anyone around right away, she decided it would be safer to just sit next to Ethan on the bench. Didn't want him getting cold without his jacket, after all.

"Oh Ethan, I can't ask you to do that," she shook her head and clasped her hands together. "You just... you'll just.... I'll just tell you what happened. And then you'll see." And then he would hate her, no doubt.

Bunz glanced first to the left then to the right and snuggled closer to Zan so she could mumble her side of the story and still be heard. "Well. I issued Upstead a detention after class the other day... after he continued to demonstrate his vendetta against me, invaded my personal space numerous times, and basically slobbered all over my head.... it was horrifying. And when he showed up in the greenhouses, he sat down on my precious Devil's Snare - sat down by his own choice, mind you - and then fought with the Snare and bit it and generally abused an innocent plant."

It had been amusing to Annie, of course, since it just showed what an idiot Jake was for thinking he could win against Devil's Snare. Unfortunately the idiot hadn't known when to stop. "Obviously, my Snare didn't like being bit and it reacted as it does... a little squeezing... a few tendrils might have slapped him across the face... but I stopped it, Ethan, I didn't want either of them to be seriously injured..."

Her lip was trembling slightly, not out of empathy for Jake but because her poor plant was still injured and scarred from the encounter.

"I did take the boy to the Hospital Wing, see, because... I don't know, he had a demon fit or something and I was scared and I have NO IDEA what is wrong with that child but I can't get along with a catnapper who won't even listen to reason and doesn't know how to respect his elders..."

UGH. It was making her angry just thinking about it. Bunz clenched her fist and thumped her own leg. "It's not my fault I lose my temper. If you could just... just see the way the children treat me... and and Masterson threw pumpkins at me so I turned him into a niffler and Iliana was there in the class the whole time but she lets Jake get away with anything........ I haven't even told you about the part regarding Tino...."

Annie looked away in the direction of Hogsmeade. Maybe she wouldn't have to tell him the rest of the story. Maybe Ethan would just turn her over to Borr & Co. now.

"Oh! Dangit!" Miranda mumbled as the camera slipped throught her mitted hands, landing on a pile of snow by the plant's roots. Quickly she picked it up and began to wipe the snow away. Oooooh I hope the pictures are allriiiight...

Her head whipped up at the sound of voices, VERY LOUD and ANGRY voices. Fine, they weren't that loud. But to a fourteen year-old it was. Miranda turned to see if there was anyone else there, but apparently the people over there had made those noises, and she was pretty sure it came from the girl.

Ooooh anger... That would be ANOTHER great picture. But now she had the boy's back to her, and it was BLOCKING the view, blocking the girl! Well there wasn't much to it but to get closer. Ofcourse, Miranda would try not to get the student's faces on film, because, you know, it's not nice to take pictures of someone without their consent. Although she was completely unaware that it was actually the teachers...

Miranda scratched her chin, squinting as she thought of how to proceeed. Yes, I see now. Feeling like a mission impossible character, her feet carried her off quickly to her next hiding spot. Her attention was solely fixed on the couple that she was poked by a branch in the eye.
"AAaghh! For the love of- UfF!" Miranda hissed as she stumbled backwards and fell on her back, her camera clutched to her chest. Rubbing her watery eye, she sat up slowly, hoping the couple had not heard her. Man... If you mess this photo op up... Hah, op up!

Nevermind.
She waited before loking out from behind the tree, incase the 'students' on the bench had heard the ruckus.